New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-11-07
NO CHOLERA on TIE BURG INDIA.
BUT PRECAUTIONS WILL BE TAKEN.

DR. SMITHS VIEWS or MAYOR HEwIrTS PROPOSE
TON FOR PUBLIC APPEAL
Tho steamer Burgundla, Of the Fabre Line, which
has been anxiousy awaited at Quarantine by tho
Health Officers, arrived yesterday from Marscilles.
d.. smith at inspected tho steamer, and an
nounced last evening that she entirely FREQ from
any indication Of cholera Her passengers, 264 In
number. all steerago wcro In good health. and there
had been scknss among them during tho voyage.
Tho Quarantine officials began to invest gate
the report OF tho steamer and they occupied I'M
til evening In this task So far as asccrtancd, the
report Of tho surgeon OF the steamer entirely
verified, Or. Smith stated The Burgunda, however.
viii again BIO taken down to Hoffman Island where
tho baggage and the ship will be thoroughly dSln-
fec ted and the condition OF the passengers submitted
to further obscrvao before tho will DO per
United TO go to her pier
DR.. Smith said that tho Burgunda probably
just az FREQ from cholera infection steamers that
come nom other ports where no cholera is known To
exist. Tho precautions taken In dlsinfccting the
steamer would preclude all possibility OF contagion
ado you think favorably OF Mayor IIewtt's propV-
sItton raise by public appeal protect tue
city nom cholera" DR.. Smith asked.
shall answer Mayor IIewItts letter at once, he
replied. "The funds for meeting tho emergency
necessary, wherever they may from but that Is
not tho point In this case II IS remarkable state
Of affairs when the important port Of the country
and the most carefully guarded, supposed TO be-
has appeal At the last moment voluntary public
aid protect tho cty's health. When cholera first
appeared In Europe IN 1884. the Quarantine Com
missiOncrs applied To tho legislature for means Ia
prepare for IT,. Governor Cleveland vetOei tho meas
IRE Governor I'm ha- since repeated the veto The
only money that has been expended In preparation was
$500 two years ago Now II II Is proposed to put
tho buildings In repairs, how II 10 be done when
cholera patients likely 10 DO occupying them all
tho time for months to come Workncn cannot he
sent over there"
what would you do with thousand passengers
with cholera aInons them If you had them on your
hand, r.
Tho only way that they could be managed now
would DO to Obtain vessels for hospitals do not
think thcro ally question # our being ahlo to keep
tho oho.cra olt 81 this port. WIN all the iiSld:an-
tagr, If Inadequate mean, We chcch ii II among The
hles.as passengers Ia two weeks but It "OnId have
been duuc IT, a wreck with the pioDcr means
How many dcatt, havo there been from cholera
among these passenger
Souo Thirty fvo IN all which IL about 30 per cont
~ the that were under our care. on the other
Sdo tho death runs nearly 30 per cent.
What truth l. there ~ tho reported escape OF
cholera patient from Hoffman Island r
There Il truth ia II. No patient has escaped
a. tho record viii show No IL permitted To APP
proach tho Island without authority. In answer I"
The italian un~ul-,cncras letter IN toiay'- TRiii
carefully attended ami have abundant clothing and
food. far better. probably, than many Of hom have
ever been accustomed TO- This Is supplied by tho
steamship company"